Jisuk Park

LECTURER IN JAPANESE

Educational Background

MA: Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy, University of Madison-Wisconsin
BA: Irish Literature, University of Aichi Shukutoku

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN2201 Second-Year Japanese I
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS UN3005 Third Year Japanese I
JPNS UN3006 Third Year Japanese II
JPNS GU4017 Fourth-Year Japanese I
JPNS GU4018 Fourth-Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Social Networking Approach
Project-Based Learning

Jisuk Park has been teaching beginners to advanced-level students in Japanese at Columbia University since 2002. During her time at Columbia, Ms. Park took part in a team that created the audio and supplemental materials for the First-Year Japanese textbook, Minna no Nihongo and revised the entire curriculum for the First-Year Japanese class. She was also a member of the review committee for First, Second and Fourth-Year Japanese textbooks. Ms Park was instrumental in the development and revision of various course materials at Columbia University. In 2011, she co-authored the published text “Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course, Routledge, 2011”. Ms. Park also regularly taught Intermediate Japanese at Princeton University’s Ishikawa Summer Intensive Program as well as two summers at the Hokkaido International Foundation.In addition, in 2017 Ms. Park along with Fumiko Nazikian produced the winning proposal at a workshop funded by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning.

Publications

“The Aim of Japanese Language Education to Apply “Tertiary Socialisation” – A Report on the Application of the Social Networking Approach (SNA)” (the 25th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, 2017)

“How to Develop “21st Century Skills” in Foreign Language Education” (the American Association of Teachers of Japanese journal “Japanese Language and Literature,” 2016; co-author: Fumiko Nazikian)
“How to Connect with Others, Things and Information outside of Classroom” (Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 2016)